Last year, Shreveport experienced its lowest crime rate in nearly 40 years, Shreveport Police Chief Willie Shaw said at a city council meeting Tuesday.

The department responded to 10,728 crimes in 2014 of what's known as the Part I type -- homicides, rapes, aggravated assaults, burglaries and thefts. That number hasn't been so low since 1975, when there were 10,628 reported Part I crimes, according to statistics provided by SPD.

There were 28 reported homicides in 2014, the third-lowest total since 1977, Shaw said.

And of the 278,000 calls for service officers responded to last year, Shaw said, 94 percent did not involve any arrests. Officers worked 8,873 motor vehicle crashes and issued more than 48,000 traffic citations. Shaw said 13,363 people were booked into Shreveport City Jail, While another 2,749 were given summonses.

Reported rapes were up in 2014 at 125 compared to 2013, at 85, but that was due to the increased likelihood rape survivors will notify authorities of the crime, he said.